When it comes to driverless cars, legendary car designer Henrik
Fisker said he thinks it won't "have as dramatic a change as
people might imagine."

Fisker has a keen understanding of the challenges to getting new
car technology on the market. He was involved in pioneering electric car
technology before EVs became part of
the mainstream.

And as someone who has worked with major automakers — including
BMW, Aston Martin, and Tesla — Fisker has seen a lot when it
comes to car design and technology.

But when it comes to autonomous cars, Fisker isn't as
optimistic.

"If you look back in history, we've had a lot of new technology
entering cars — whether it was ABS brakes or other safety
features," Fisker told Tech Insider. "I think that when
driverless car technology enters vehicles, I don't think it
will have as dramatic a change as people might imagine."

Fisker envisions driverless car technology will stay in the form
we currently see in Teslas.

"I think it will in be used for certain applications — it will be
an advance cruise control type of button," he said.

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Fisker's main reason for believing that is very true to his
love of speed. He said he thinks driverless cars' inability to
break the speed limit will be a major problem going forward.

"I doubt you'd be able to program a driverless car to break the
speed limit and, the fact is, most people break the speed
limit simply because they are just making the traffic flow," he
said.

Fisker's other concern with driverless cars is that there's no
clear explanation of who is at fault if a driverless car were to
get in an accident, especially one with fatalities or serious
injuries.

"What about that one time it doesn't make a good decision?" he
said.

Many companies are in the race to get self-driving cars on the market by 2020,
including Google, Tesla, Toyota, and Nissan. But one of the
biggest obstacles to getting this technology on the road is that
there are no federal regulations outlining how autonomous
vehicles must operate.

Currently, rules for self-driving cars are handled on a
state-by-state basis.

Automakers and tech companies developing the technology have been
calling on the government to help address this issue in
particular.

"The leadership of the federal government is critically important
given the growing patchwork of State laws and regulations on
self­-driving cars," Chris Urmson, the director of Google's
self-driving car arm, said during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.